The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again.

The newspaper is a Bible which we read every morning and every afternoon, standing and sitting, riding and walking. It is a Biblewhich every man carries in his pocket, which lies on every table and counter, and which the mail, and thousands of missionaries, are continually dispersing. It is, in short, the only book which America has printed, and which America reads. So wide is its influence.

Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us sane forever.

In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.

I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my attention with thosewhich are insignificant, which only a divine mind could illustrate. Such is, for the most part, the news in newspapers and conversation.

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must bestripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living laid for a foundation.

To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.